Language / Linguistics

Adheesh Sathaye

Associate Professor of Sanskrit Literature and South Asian Folklore

Sanskrit literature, ancient India, Asian folklore, digital humanities, manuscripts, Hinduism, caste, Hindu mythology, Sanskrit theater, Sanskrit poetry

Jonathan Berkowitz, PhD

Full-time Instructor

Statistics, word puzzles, wordplay

Gaoheng Zhang, PhD

Gaoheng Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies

Italian-Chinese cultural relationships, Chinese migrations to Italy, gender in Italy, Italian media and cinema, Italian literature and culture, Italian colonial and postcolonial cultures, Italian travel and migration literature and cinema

Ron Darvin

Ron Darvin

Assistant Professor

Digital literacy, digital equity, K-12 education, language learning, educational technology, immigrant students

John Wagner, PhD

John Wagner, PhD

Associate Professor

Environmental anthropology, political ecology, water, water governance, agriculture, food security, food sovereignty, Columbia River Treaty, Columbia River Basin, local ecological knowledge, community-based resource management, language documentation, Okanagan Valley, Creston Valley, Columbia Basin Project area, British Columbia, Washington State, Papua New Guinea

Martina Wiltschko, PhD

Professor of Linguistics

Canadian eh (and its equivalents across the languages of the world), theoretical linguistics, syntax, grammar, discourse, conversations, pragmatics, First Nations languages, language documentation

Guofang Li, PhD

Guofang Li, PhD

Professor

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair

Immigration, immigrant children’s language and literacy education, English as a second language (ESL) education, Chinese heritage language education, early childhood education, family literacy, technology-enhanced language teaching, pre- and inservice TESOL teacher education, cross-cultural studies

Dr. Florian Gassner, PhD

Dr. Florian Gassner, PhD

Associate Professor of Teaching

German, Ukraine, Russia, Central Europe, Censorship,

Prof. Meike Wernicke, PhD

Prof. Meike Wernicke, PhD

Assistant Professor

Intercultural Education, Language Planning and Policy, Multi-/Plurilingualism, Second Language Education (French), Teacher Education,

Anne Murphy, PhD

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Centre for India and South Asia Research

Punjabi Studies, Punjabi Canadian histories and cultural production, South Asian studies, South Asia, Punjab, Pakistan, India, Punjabi language, Punjabi diaspora, Sikh studies, Sikh diaspora, South Asian religions

Daisy Rosenblum, PhD

Daisy Rosenblum, PhD

Assistant Professor

Language revitalization, language documentation, linguistics, linguistic anthropology, Indigenous languages, community-based research

Dr. Suzanne Huot, PhD

Dr. Suzanne Huot, PhD

Assistant Professor

Francophone minority communities, immigration, occupational science, qualitative research,

Ervin Malakaj, PhD

Ervin Malakaj, PhD

Assistant Professor of German Studies

Germany, Austria, Central Europe, literary studies, media studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice education

Katherine Bowers, PhD

Katherine Bowers, PhD

Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies

Russia, Eastern Europe, Russian literature, Russian culture, Russian language, Siberia, gothic literature, narrative, genre, digital humanities, media studies,

Marie-Eve Bouchard, PhD

Assistant Professor

Ideologies, identity, minorities, language change, language shift, language variation, language contact, racialization processes, African Portuguese, language attitudes,

Dr. Dagmar Schwerk

Dr. Dagmar Schwerk

Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Tibetan Buddhist Studies

Tibetan and Bhutanese Buddhism, modernity and religion, Himalayas, Bhutan, Buddhist ethics, secularity, religion and politics in Bhutan, Tibet, Buddhist philosophy, nation-building, identity building,